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Amazon Echo with Alexa (3rd Generation) $49 (Was $149) @ JB Hi-Fi

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# Online link is dead but still scans at $49 in store currently. Now Scans at $149

Seems like an amazing price on this echo from JB Hi-Fi!


Meet Echo – Echo (3rd Gen) has new premium speakers powered by Dolby to play 360° audio with crisp vocals and dynamic bass response.

Enjoy premium sound – Personalise your listening experience by adjusting the equaliser settings.

Voice control your music – Ask Alexa for a song, artist, or genre from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and more.

Voice control your smart home – Turn on lights, adjust thermostats, plugs and more with compatible connected devices.


As always, enjoy :)

Thanks to Price Hipster for the pickup.

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  • +1

    Sweet price! Thanks doweyy!

  • +2

    Great price

    • -3

      Dont think anyone can live without these things with or without kids

    • +6

      What's the go with kids using them?
      My kids love asking all the questions and get help for their homework
      Sometimes I don't even know the answers

      • +1

        You partially answered your own question:

        1. These assistants are able to answer questions which parents are unable to provide.

        2. Children crave for attention, which parents (despite their best efforts) are unable to provide at all times. Smart assistants are excellent because they are always listening.

        3. Kids love music. Smart devices are able to play music at just a voice command away and kids just love it. (don't we all?)

        (Just my opinion as someone working in education)

        • +3

          What happened to instilling patience in kids waiting for their song to come up on tape deck or estimating how long to rewind for as well as overcoming frustration if queued incorrectly?

        • +1

          it is not google, it can't give you an answers, only prebuilt ones. 95% of the time it says " sorry, i don't know that yet"

        • Would have to agree with you what you say
          I work from home almost every day
          At times I am working and they want attention, Google does help them with certain things most of which is curated with my input so it is kids friendly

    • +5

      If you own a mobile phone you're already being listened to. Cheers.

      • +2

        Sort of, if you give it permissions to do so and if you don't have it stuffed into a handbag or pocket more often than not.

        There's a dramatic difference between a device designed with the sole purpose of listening to everything you say, positioned in a location where it can hear everything you say and a device that has a secondary function of listening to things you say , positioned in a location that is muffled.

      • +3

        If you own a mobile phone you're already being listened to.

        How? I still use a 2G phone.

        Must say, I haven't received a call for a while…

      • And watching you through either front or back camera. Tracking your where abouts etc LOL

    • +5

      If you have kids, do not buy these things.

      Scaremongering at its finest.

    • My kids use it the most.

      Do remember the phone is listening as well!!!

    • +17

      If you have these things, do not buy any kids.

      • Can we sell them?

    • +2

      Damn, they might hear little Susie call her brother a poopy head.

    • -6

      Your innocence scares me guys.

      For everyone thinking that I am crazy, I work as DevOps Engineer, technology for the newbies.
      I have a DIY project at home to block our mobiles, my smart TV, laptops, consoles, for sending data, tracking, etc.
      I am also able to connect to my home while I am not there to keep these things blocked

      You are all making joke at me, I am lmao at you all hahahahahahahahaha

      it's listening to everything you say even when you are not calling it to ask something
      As I said, kids have no sense of danger, no sense of what can and what cannot be said. If you trust giving this tech things to the kids, your parent right should be banned lol

      Siri voice assistant was caught having customers credit card details. The data was collects without the customers knowing.

      Anyways, keep being a terrible parent and good luck with all of your data being shared with God's know who lol

      • I work as DevOps Engineer

        and yet the best technical description of your networking config is

        I have a DIY project at home

        blocking your laptop from 'sending data' must make browsing ozbargain pretty difficult

      • +1

        Who says we're innocent or ignorant? Many people knowingly sacrifice privacy for convenience.

        • +1

          Very true - We LOVE that google maps says its an extra 20 mins to get home today - why does it know that? Because we've allowed it to watch not only us - but the cars around us… - but hey I use it and love it.

      • As a "DevOps" engineer you should know better. Alexa has passive listening so it's just recording and overwriting about one second of ambient sound until it hears the wake word. It can only handle this much because it only has 1MB of memory.

        Even so, don't you think the thousands of engineers around the world would have discovered dodgy packets coming out of Alexa by now?

          • +1

            @Namesareapain: while i believe that should be opt-in to 'improve the service' thats not 'passive listening'

            thats reviewing processed audio thats already been sent to amazon to ensure the translation was correct

          • @Namesareapain: Actually as a "DevOPS engineer" myself I like to think i'm educated on the subject.

            How do you think computers recognise and interpret voice language? The algorithms and AI need to be constantly trained and this needs human interaction. Software can only do so much but at the end of the day you need a human to tell it if it's doing the right thing.

            Do you really think these people who are probably earning minimum age care what you had for dinner?

        • -3

          You are as innocent as who believes that AWS cannot touch the servers without you knowing.
          The less people know, the better. Keep this mentality.

      • Wooohh.. DevOps Engineer.. Wow.. makes you an authority on security against conspiracy theories using tin foil hats.

      • +1

        Don't bother, it's a brainwashed population that bombards itself with Government and commercial propaganda on a voluntary basis which led to the oligarchy we have today.

        Their children will presumably be even poorer and more brainwashed since they were raised from day 1 in surveillance capitalism allowing greater control of the morons via the aforementioned propaganda.

    • got some wireshark logs to back that up?

    • Get off the internet @whiiiskyy, you have leaked so much information already. The Google assassins will get you!!!

    • If the geeks at Amazon want to listen to me and the wife arguing about stupid sh*t all day, they are more than welcome.

  • anyone use one of these as a ring doorbell chime?

    Was going to buy a ring chime, but this is like the same price

    • +1

      Can you please explain this function to me? Does it work as a standalone device or does it pair with those smart doorbells?

    • I use the an echo dot (that I got for free with an Audible subscription) for the chime, works flawlessly

      • +1

        What we need now is a smarter doorbell button that recognises 'unwanted's' at the door either by camera or fingerprint, then you have a Tom Mabe like 'chime' play for each type of caller.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrzG5F4R3o

    • +1

      Yep. Ring is owned by Amazon so it is compatible as an alerting device

    • +1

      I've got one configured as a for doorbell chime using home assistant and a xiaomi button. (And I've got the microphone turned off, so it is effectively just a speaker with inbuilt Chromecast audio)

    • Yes it says “someone is at the front door”
      The echo with the screen can connect to view who is at the door.

  • Can this be used just as a Bluetooth speaker?

    • I don't think so. Works through wifi.

      • It has Bluetooth. So i think it will work as a Bluetooth speaker but smart featured will not work (no alexa)

        • Well there you go, indeed you can. Looks like you can also pair them to a bluetooth speaker if that was desirable.

      • Pretty sure the Google Home Minis can also be connected via Bluetooth.

        • Yes, they can. How does this sound in terms of volume and quality of sound to a home mini?

          • @denwol: No idea, sorry. Don't have one of these.

          • @denwol: Amazon sound on thier devices is better than Google.

          • @denwol: This should be miles better than a Home Mini. It's a much bigger device, with bigger wider range speakers.

    • The 2nd gen certainly can act as bluetooth speaker. So probably.

      You can use a pair for streaming stereo, but not bluetooth stereo.

      These are equivalent to the GH, better sound than a mini at high volume.

    • Seems a lot of people are knowledgeable so I'll ask here: Can it work as a bluetooth speaker without being connected to a wifi network? I'm a teacher in need of a portable bluetooth speaker and if I can use this without wifi it would be very useful.

      • +1

        The Echo needs to be connected to a power source at all times, so if you want a portable speaker this is not the right device for you.

        • +1

          Fair point. Thanks.

  • Great price, cheers doweyy. Still $149 on Amazon website. I wonder if it's a price error? 🙈

  • +1

    will amazon price match/Beat this??

  • +2

    The question is, do I need this…

    • +4

      No

    • +3

      No

    • +9

      no but in lower case

    • +3

      On but reversed

    • +1

      No

    • +1

      Yes, but the opposite.

    • +2

      That's the question you ask after buying it.
      Then it doesn't matter cause you saved $100.
      The real question is what you can spend the $100 you saved on.

  • When I add the product to the cart for click and collect, it is getting added and can select click and collect. But when I try to click "proceed to payment" nothing is happening, still in the same page. Please help

    • Have you selected the store you want to pick up from? Mine went through fine.

      • Yes I selected the store.

        • Same problem for me as well

          • @shivaussie: I closed all the pages. Added it again. Now went through to the payment page.

            • @Dodge1711: Still not working for me. I have post code 2000 and pick up from strand mall at Pitt st but it's not going through even though it's in stock.
              Where are you picking it up from?

    • log in with an account seems to work, though new accounts only. all my existing accounts say password failure.

    • I had the same issue. Use Incognito Window, and shop as a Guest.
      Worked for me that way.

    • My was problematic as well. After clicking the payment button in paypal it just redirected me back to the previous page with the proceed with payment button as if my payment did not go through. I was almost about to reorder it again because my paypal also showed no activity.
      After about 5 minutes it suddenly redirected my browser to a new page with my order number. The confirmation email took even longer. I think the system is having problem with all the traffic so its very, very slow.

    • I got through payment… And keep loading. Paid by paypal (got transaction in bank account) but jb web keeps loading… ???

      Thought it was price error. And my order will be cancelled/refund soon. No luck 4 me!

  • Got one for the kitchen and the van, thanks!

  • How does Amazon Echo with Amazon Music compare to Google Home with YouTube Music? Do you need to pay for it to get more out of it like you do with YouTube Music Premium?

    • +2

      I think the Echo is a better device with better speech recognition and much more home automation options. I’ve got both. You also have to pay for Amazon music and I don’t think it’s as good as Apple
      music or Spotify, both of which you can also use on the Echo

    • +1

      Paid Amazon music service or can also connect to Spotify.
      If you have prime. You get 40 hours of amazon free music
      Amazon echos are a lot better than google. I own both.

  • How is the sound quality compare to a non-smart speaker, such as jbl flip5 or sony sbs 20/22. Found not much information except 1 3" woofer and a tweeter (mono?)
    Can i pair 2 to make it play stereo music?

  • At that price I'm grabbing some and will find out first hand the clashes with Google devices .

  • Bought two, must be a price error surely….might just give them as gifts for this price!

  • catalog has them at 149 so pricing error i think :(

  • Do they sell anything for $1? Trying to make use of my Westpac Cashback.

  • +1

    Oh sod, I got Ozbargained again - $55.99 delivered.

  • Can these work with Chromecast audios?

  • Grabbed one, cheers OP. Cracking price!

  • it's already been taken down!!

  • I have one of this and it’s been great. The voice quality is amazing too, my 2 yr old daughter loves it.

  • Looks like this was the price for echo dot and someone messed it up

  • Thanks OP ordered 2. Not sure what I'm going to do with them! Worst case they'll make wonderful xmas presents.

  • Can't find URL it says :-(

  • Too late

  • Reached until payment menu and then the deal got struck down !!

    • Still at the checkout with the wheel spinning haha

      • Price gone to 249

  • I'm also wondering, is this one on the market yet, cause the other colors and models are still pre-order?

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